Speaker. I simply want to commend the gentleman from California on an extraordinarily well documented statement on the problem of Jews in the Soviet Union. It is a kind of catch22 situation where a youngster in a university applies for emigration. gets bounced from the univesity. gets drafted in the Army and then is told he cannot emigrate because he has been exposed to military secrets. is I am afraid all too often what we have seen in the Soviet Union. I think it is important at this time when we are negotiating in Geneva with the Soviet Union that this record be made as the gentleman has made it regarding the violations that the Soviet Union has caused to occur with respect to the Helsinki agreements and all the problems that the gentleman from California has documented. as I think it is important and I know the administration feels this way also that our negotiators at Geneva make it clear to the Soviet Union that that noncompliance with past agreements with the United States obviously raises difficulties with respect to future agreements between our two countries. because if we cannot rely on them performing the agreements we already have. how can we. rely on their performing future agreements? So I think the gentleman from California has performed a very important service this evening in presenting this extraordinarily well documented address on the problems of the Jews and of Soviet noncompliance with their agreements and I commend him for it.
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